NVIDIA NemotronLabs VoiceChat 11B

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Initial v1.0 release of NemotronLabs VoiceChat 11B, NVIDIA's first open full-duplex speech model combining a Fast Conformer encoder, Nemotron Nano V2 9B LLM backbone, and TTS decoder into one architecture. The model adds live tool-calling support during natural conversation, a first among open full-duplex voice models according to NVIDIA.

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NVIDIA Releases Nemotron VoiceChat 11B, an Open Full-Duplex Speech Model with Live Tool Calling

NVIDIA has released NemotronLabs VoiceChat 11B, an 11-billion-parameter end-to-end full-duplex speech model that unifies streaming speech understanding and generation in one architecture. The model claims to be the first open full-duplex system to support live tool calling during natural conversation, with ~450ms turn-taking latency.

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